Valses poéticos No. 7

Enrique Granados · Level 4 (Intermediate) · Romantic · Piano

A Vivo waltz in A major that starts very high on the keyboard in brilliant chords, before a more singing middle part in legato eighths. From Granados’s Valses poéticos (c. 1894), a garland of Spanish waltzes linked between an introduction and a coda. A major, 3/4, 40 bars (about 2 minutes), complete score.

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How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Keep the high chords light and short; the left hand answers like an echo. In the middle section let the top voice sing. One hand sometimes plays two voices: hold the long notes for their full value and let the main line sing louder than the accompaniment. The left hand makes wide leaps: look at the landing note in advance and move early, without rushing the rhythm. For chords, shape the hand in the air before landing, all notes together.

More pieces by Enrique Granados

• Valses poéticos No. 5
• Valses poéticos: No. 8 and Coda

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